In an attempt to find the number one diet that could easily be labeled as the best way to lose weight fast right next to finding those diets who assist with healing heart conditions and diabetes U.S. News & World Report, a well established provider of reliable information on topics such as Politics & Policy, Health, Money, Education, Science and Law has hired 22 health care experts. Their professional expertise encompasses nutrition, diabetes, human behavior, weight loss and heart disease.
They set out to examine and evaluate dieting as a whole in four different major categories:
- Best commercial diet plans
- Best weight loss diets
- Best diabetes diets
- Best heat healthy diets
- Best Diets Overall
The team screened 20 of the most popular diets among those for the best way to lose weight fast to fitness diets or vegan diets. In order to apply a common standard seven different rating categories were set up:
Category 1: Diabetes
Finding those diets that would a) allow to prevent diabetes altogether and b) would be optimal as a maintenance measure for diabetics.
Category 2: Nutritional Completeness
This category is based on the degree to which a diet is in alignment with the federal government’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010.
Category 3: Heart
This also falls into 2 sub categories: a) does the diet show any effectiveness for cardiovascular disease prevention and b) is the diet suitable in terms of reducing risks for patients with a heart condition.
Category 4: Health Risk
Are there any known components in the diet that might lead to specific nutrient concerns? Is the diet set up in a way that might lead to malnourishment? Is there a contraindications for certain populations or existing conditions this diet is adverse to? And lastly, apart from offering the best way to lose weight fast, would the diet cause overly rapid weight loss?
Category 5: Ease of Compliance
How does the diet perform in terms of taste approval, special requirements, satiety?
Category 6: Long Term Weight Loss
Does the diet result in maintaining a significant loss of weight for 2 or more years?
Category 7: Short Term Weight Loss
What are the chances for the best way to lose weight fast to lose a considerable amount of weight in the first twelve months of dieting?
The experts were to apply a score of 1 to 5 stars to each of these categories after being scrutinized in depth. Their investigation had them mining medical journals, sifting through government reports and other resources in order to research each and everyone of the diets in question for a six months period of time in total. After that a profile of very diet was established which reflects all the findings the health and diet experts have come up with after their thorough investigation.
Read on about what this team of specialists has found out about the best way to lose weight fast or long term as well as what diets have performed best in the areas of diabetes and heart conditions in part II.
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